Jennie (?)
1920
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 11 × 9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
sheet: 12 × 9.6 cm (4 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
mount: 34.4 × 26.7 cm (13 9/16 × 10 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.452
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Stieglitz Estate Number
199D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
654

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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 654.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 199 D
Wikidata ID
Q64034969
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Georgia O’Keeffe later identified this woman as a maid at the Lake George house, possibly Jennie. The date is based on Stieglitz’s letter to Herbert Seligmann regarding photographs made of “the chambermaid 2 years ago” (26 August 1922 [YCAL]), and the checklist for Stieglitz’s 1923 exhibition.
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
possibly 1923, New York (no. 115, as Jennie, 1920)